The Freedom Corridor conference at Illinois College focuses on preserving and recognizing Underground Railroad sites across ...

Historian and author Glennette Turner shares insight into the important role Illinois abolitionists played ... enslaved Africans via the Underground Railroad. Senate votes to avoid government ...

would put significant resources into expanding passenger rail and intercity buses throughout Illinois. The first bill would appropriate $575 million to maintain and expand intercity passenger rail ...

In 1913, abolitionist and Underground Railroad “conductor” Harriet Tubman died of pneumonia in Auburn, New York. In 1969, James Earl Ray pleaded guilty in Memphis, Tennessee, to assassinating ...

To learn more about IBTR, go to https://extension.illinois.edu/forestry, especially check out the interactive map of IBTR champions. The sheer size of the eastern cottonwood, the biggest tree in ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill (WREX) – The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) approved public safety upgrades at the Five Corners Road and Crossroads Road highway-rail grade crossing of Chicago, Central and ...

The MBTA’s South Coast Rail project — represented by the dotted lines on the map — will offer free parking and free weekend travel for several weeks after service begins. Massachusetts Bay ...

New maps reveal the streets where high-rise towers, some soaring up to 60 metres, will be built as part of the controversial Suburban Rail Loop. Check your suburb. Draft plans for six stations ...

BALTIMORE, Tuesday, Feb. 28. The majority of the Legislative Committee on the Baltimore City Railroad reported to-day in favor of giving the charter to BROOKS & Co., of Philadelphia. The minority ...